Things We Love Thursday -- Marissa

I love miniature food!

It started when I had a dollhouse as a child, or maybe before, as I have a certain fondness for the Beatrix Potter story "A Tale of Two Bad Mice" and their bizarre dollhouse adventures. Here is fake food that really would fool a scrounging mouse:





These exquisite examples are made by an Etsy seller called Petit Plat. Aren't they great? I love the detail, and the fact that they are so ridiculously small (that tray below is less than 2 inches long). Amazing work!!

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Edward Gorey and his love of cats.

This video for Scholarship at Langara 2010

The delicate adorable functional ceramic/porcelain work of Joanna (prettyrandomobjects) and Sawako (alleluja).

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Cat Jam Print from the OhMyCavalier Etsy shop!



















Legare Sustainable - 36" Straight Desk.
No tools needed! Beautiful and easy to build and move around!



The arrival of spring! So inspiring. Nature is making things, I should too!

Things We Love Thursday -- Marissa

Meat Sections is a genius art-of-the-day blog which, by its own description, "involves drawing (and perhaps the occasional photo) of butchery-style diagrams, of not just the standard pig, cow, lamb, and other edible creatures, but odder items as well." It's made by a lady named Alyson who lives in San Francisco, and I think it's brilliant. But I also really like meat and meat diagrams.




Shaun White, aka The Flying Tomato, is probably going to inspire a lot of drawing on my part as he returns to the Winter Olympics next week. Between his bold appearance, bold moves, and the fact that he's frequently airborne, this dude makes me want to draw a whole fleet of flying snowboarders in my sketchbook. I used to draw a ton of extreme sports back in the day; maybe it's time to get back to that?

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Colour Lovers Dot Com

















Photos from the old World's Fairs.

















Brown Kraft Paper.

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Apparently I have a theme this week - cuts.









The paper-cuts of Henri Matisse - endlessly inspiring.
this piece - la gerbe
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Ubiquitous by Naoko Ito
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These amazing, often hilarious, pieces from Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre
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I saw this poster by Frank Chimero recently and was struck by the composition (lovely!) and the sentiment (been there! always!).

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RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan commissioned a reworking of Washington crossing the Delaware featuring himself as the father of our country and some of his pals in the painting as well. I kind of wish I'd thought of this first, but kudos to you, RZA, for thinking big. You can get yours here.

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Ben Kehoe - his palette, his textures, his compositions (I love squares!), his trees.
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Recovering Lazyholic's 12 Steps - good advice for everyone.
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Sarah Caterisano's travel sketchbook - full of beautiful details and an enviably effortless feeling.
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